J3rry W3st says to use a link buying service that offer site-wide links, minimum of 1,000 indexed pages, so that you can hide your real link structure from your competitors...because Yahoo, Google, and Bing will only show the first 1,000 links. He says it should only take about 8-10 days for the links to update on Yahoo! Site Explorer, and once it does you best links are kept more private.

Sounds like a great idea to me. And I would think that he would not give that kind of advice if it was going to hurt your site, as this is the advice he just gave, today, to all of his members (who pay $100/month for his advice).

im ranking on page 1 for a competitive keyword because of site wide links. I have a domain with 6k indexed pages and i put the link in its footer and voila after a month i was on number 3 of page 1
.. so id say it works

this definitely works. it is one of my best source of backlinks. I host stores for clients and at the footer i have a link to my store. my competitors also do something very similar.

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just be careful. I used to work for an SEO company we got dropped in the rankings for a little because one of our clients had thousands of dynamic url from a shopping cart with all links back to our site.

just be careful. I used to work for an SEO company we got dropped in the rankings for a little because one of our clients had thousands of dynamic url from a shopping cart with all links back to our site.

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was it a google dance or a true penalty?

out link is very natural and i dont think google will penalize. our clients can set up a store, it is our software that powers the store and at the bottom of every page is a link that says "powered by xyz.com" and is a link to xyz.com

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